Hands-on CES EduPack 2018 Short Course

Course date: Wednesday, August 15, 2018

In addition to the two-days of the Symposium itself, you are also invited to take part in the short course which will precede the main event.

This one-day short course will provide inspirational ideas and teaching resources that will help you to engage students in learning about materials and their use in engineering and design applications.

Whether you already use CES EduPack in your teaching, or have heard about the resources and would like to know more join this short course and discover CES EduPack and contribute to its future development.

Note: attendees will need to bring their own laptop computers for the hands-on sessions, and will be provided with a 30 day license of the new CES EduPack 2018 software.

Draft Agenda

9:30 AM

Registration & refreshments

10:00 AM

Course opens—Welcome

10:05 AM

Introductions, Granta's Education Hub and Agenda Review

10:15 AM

Getting Started with CES EduPack

11:00 AM

Hands-on exercises

11:30 AM

MaterialsSelection: Translation, Screening and Ranking

12:15 PM

Hands-on exercises

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Eco-Design and the Eco Audit Tool: introducing students to life-cycle thinking

2:15 PM

Objectives in Conflict and Advanced Industrial Case Study

3:15 PM

Coffee & refreshments

3:30 PM

Knowledge and Ideas Exchange for educators (Discussion)

4 PM

Advanced CES EduPack Databases and Future Developments

4:45 PM

Wrap up & discussion. Course evaluation.

5 PM

Close

Background: What is the course about?

The CES EduPack package has been created by Professor Mike Ashby of Cambridge University and his colleagues over the past 25 years. Both the resources that it provides and the ideas that it implements are valuable to educators across a broad range of engineering-related courses, and from freshman to senior level teaching. They have been used to support and reinforce existing courses that use a variety of teaching approaches and texts, as well as in the design of new courses.

At the heart of CES EduPack is a database of materials and process properties, supported by textbook-style explanations of materials attributes and behavior. This provides a rich, interactive information resource that can engage students with the world of materials. The CES EduPack software applies the information in the database, enabling exercises and projects to analyze and compare materials properties, and to select materials for engineering applications. These computer-based learning tools are augmented with PowerPoints lectures, teaching resource books, student projects and exercises, and textbooks.

The course will show, through lectures interspersed with hands-on sessions using the software, how such resources can assist materials teaching.

Course team

Course leader: Professor Mike Ashby

Mike Ashby, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, is a world-renowned authority on engineering materials being the author/co-author of best-selling textbooks and of over 200 papers on topics including the mechanisms of plasticity and fracture, powder compaction, mechanisms of wear, methodologies for materials selection, and the modeling of material shaping processes. He is recipient of numerous awards and honours including Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of the American Academy of Engineering.

Presenter: Marc Fry

Marc is the Director of the Education Division of Granta Design. He holds a Mechanical / Aerospace Engineering Degree from Cambridge University and an EMBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge, with a specialization in university spin-off companies.

Presenter: Joel Galos

Joel Galos is Granta's Development Manager for North America. In addition to having completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Joel has a broad technical background and holds a MSc in Composite Materials from Imperial College London, as well as Bachelor Degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales.

Presenter: Luca Masi

Luca is an Aerospace Engineer leading Granta’s educational activities in the Americas. He has previously collaborated with the French Space Agency on software development for space trajectory optimization as part of his PhD at the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde (UK), and has R&D industrial experience in spacecraft propulsion systems.